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12-09-2014, 06:10 AM
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CHANNEL NEWS ASIA CHANGES TITLE TO REMOVE "BAN" ON ARTICLE ABOUT MDA CENSORSHIP
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11 Sep 2014 - 2:46pm
http://therealsingapore.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/8a4c0a70-38db-11e4-bee2-db74400aacc3_tosgwithlove-large.jpg?itok=EojH4Z-N (http://therealsingapore.com/sites/default/files/field/image/8a4c0a70-38db-11e4-bee2-db74400aacc3_tosgwithlove-large.jpg)
The MDA ban of award winning film 'To Singapore, With Love' by local filmmaker Tan Pin Pin is being justified by the government and mainstream media as an issue of "national security".
The reality is that this is just blatant political censorship being done to try and preserve the pristine image of the ruling PAP.
(See: MDA bans award winning local film to try and cover up history of political oppression (http://therealsingapore.com/content/mda-bans-award-winning-local-film-try-and-cover-history-political-oppression))
As if the politically motivated ban wasn't enough to show you that Singapore does not enjoy a free and fair democracy, the mainstream media has also been towing the PAP line by avoiding the use of strong words such as "ban" when writing about the incident.
Originally, Channel News Asia had put a clear headline to their article, saying that the film was banned in Singapore:
http://i.imgur.com/wYrix2r.jpg
However, several minutes later, they must have received a call from someone higher up as their title was amended to say the film was "not to be shown in public":
http://i.imgur.com/oZPhpTh.jpg
They even went to the trouble of changing their original facebook updates about the issue, however in an effort to preserve the comments and shares on the post they decided simply to 'edit' it instead of deleting and re-posting.
This results in the edit history being there for all to see:
http://i.imgur.com/6RGkKuE.jpg
It seems that the word "ban" is too strong a word for the MDA's action of censorship and mainstream media has been asked to leave it out of their reports.
The film is a documentary that looks into the lives of political exiles of Singapore and while it does touch on their views and explanations of why they were forced to move away, it focuses more on their new lives in their adopted homelands.
For the government to claim such as movie as a "threat to national security" it apparently means that the peace and security that we enjoy in Singapore is so thin and fragile and a documentary of political opponents of the PAP can shatter it into pieces.
The detaining of political opponents to the PAP through Operation Cold Store and Operation Spectrum is a very real and dark part of Singapore's history.
The "truth" that the PAP sticks with and puts in our textbooks saying that these people were terrorists is as true as the notion that Nelson Mandela or Aung San Suu Kyi, who were both once detained for opposing their governments, are terrorists.
The government is not interested to let the people hear the other side of the story through the film and others (http://therealsingapore.com/content/filmmaker-martyn-see-challenges-govt-lift-ban-his-film-featuring-ex-isa-detainees) in the past that they have banned, in order to let them make their own decisions.
The government can claim all they want that this is a "threat to national security" in reality it is just a threat to their good image and a threat to the "truth" that they have touted for so long about the political exiles being terrorists.
The MDA ban is a blatant act of censorship designed to protect the PAP's votes.
If the film was allowed to be shown, they could say that they acknowledge the past mistakes and have changed but it is clear that they have not changed at all.
The question remains, would the PAP have lost more votes by letting the people see the film and decide for themselves if they felt it was an accurate representation of Singapore's dark past, or has this action of banning and whitewashing the issue caused them to lose more votes?
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?189866-Channel-news-asia-changes-title-to-remove-quot-ban-quot-on-article-about-mda-censorship&goto=newpost).
CHANNEL NEWS ASIA CHANGES TITLE TO REMOVE "BAN" ON ARTICLE ABOUT MDA CENSORSHIP
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11 Sep 2014 - 2:46pm
http://therealsingapore.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/8a4c0a70-38db-11e4-bee2-db74400aacc3_tosgwithlove-large.jpg?itok=EojH4Z-N (http://therealsingapore.com/sites/default/files/field/image/8a4c0a70-38db-11e4-bee2-db74400aacc3_tosgwithlove-large.jpg)
The MDA ban of award winning film 'To Singapore, With Love' by local filmmaker Tan Pin Pin is being justified by the government and mainstream media as an issue of "national security".
The reality is that this is just blatant political censorship being done to try and preserve the pristine image of the ruling PAP.
(See: MDA bans award winning local film to try and cover up history of political oppression (http://therealsingapore.com/content/mda-bans-award-winning-local-film-try-and-cover-history-political-oppression))
As if the politically motivated ban wasn't enough to show you that Singapore does not enjoy a free and fair democracy, the mainstream media has also been towing the PAP line by avoiding the use of strong words such as "ban" when writing about the incident.
Originally, Channel News Asia had put a clear headline to their article, saying that the film was banned in Singapore:
http://i.imgur.com/wYrix2r.jpg
However, several minutes later, they must have received a call from someone higher up as their title was amended to say the film was "not to be shown in public":
http://i.imgur.com/oZPhpTh.jpg
They even went to the trouble of changing their original facebook updates about the issue, however in an effort to preserve the comments and shares on the post they decided simply to 'edit' it instead of deleting and re-posting.
This results in the edit history being there for all to see:
http://i.imgur.com/6RGkKuE.jpg
It seems that the word "ban" is too strong a word for the MDA's action of censorship and mainstream media has been asked to leave it out of their reports.
The film is a documentary that looks into the lives of political exiles of Singapore and while it does touch on their views and explanations of why they were forced to move away, it focuses more on their new lives in their adopted homelands.
For the government to claim such as movie as a "threat to national security" it apparently means that the peace and security that we enjoy in Singapore is so thin and fragile and a documentary of political opponents of the PAP can shatter it into pieces.
The detaining of political opponents to the PAP through Operation Cold Store and Operation Spectrum is a very real and dark part of Singapore's history.
The "truth" that the PAP sticks with and puts in our textbooks saying that these people were terrorists is as true as the notion that Nelson Mandela or Aung San Suu Kyi, who were both once detained for opposing their governments, are terrorists.
The government is not interested to let the people hear the other side of the story through the film and others (http://therealsingapore.com/content/filmmaker-martyn-see-challenges-govt-lift-ban-his-film-featuring-ex-isa-detainees) in the past that they have banned, in order to let them make their own decisions.
The government can claim all they want that this is a "threat to national security" in reality it is just a threat to their good image and a threat to the "truth" that they have touted for so long about the political exiles being terrorists.
The MDA ban is a blatant act of censorship designed to protect the PAP's votes.
If the film was allowed to be shown, they could say that they acknowledge the past mistakes and have changed but it is clear that they have not changed at all.
The question remains, would the PAP have lost more votes by letting the people see the film and decide for themselves if they felt it was an accurate representation of Singapore's dark past, or has this action of banning and whitewashing the issue caused them to lose more votes?
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?189866-Channel-news-asia-changes-title-to-remove-quot-ban-quot-on-article-about-mda-censorship&goto=newpost).